Headshots October 3rd

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Credit to BuffaloSabresNation for turning our attention to this: following a pair similar videos that made the rounds this summer about Pavel Bure, the same user (WeatherWiseCDC) has posted an Alex Mogilny ‘lost shifts’ video to YouTube. Mogilny was truly a complete hockey player, who perhaps was somewhat underappreciated during his time Vancouver. Playing on a crappy team that offers you little incentive to work beyond the minimum will do that to you.

And was stuck playing for such a crappy team. I went and re-listened to that radio clip I’d included in my story last year; just amazing to hear the lack of perspective from Russell, Macdonald and Mason about just how bad the team was. They called out Mogilny for not caring, but as I commented, what difference would it have made if he scored 25 more goals? Not much!